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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Hitler fail to crush the British troops in France?
(a) Too many resistance fighters sabotaging the efforts.
(b) Because of Bletchely correctly analyzing and anticipating German plans.
(c) Supply lines were cut off.
(d) Poor equipment.

2. Why did Sir Henry Tizard bring an assortment of confidential information to the United States?
(a) So it wouldn't be captured by the Germans.
(b) For analysis.
(c) To convince the Americans to join the war effort.
(d) To fool the Germans.

3. What did Stevenson investigate about an aspect of the Phony War?
(a) How the German Ambassador intercepts communication between Churchill and Roosevelt.
(b) Why new codes were harder to devise than old codes broken.
(c) How quickly communications could happen.
(d) Why the codes were being broken.

4. Who was William Wiseman?
(a) A spy for Britian in France during WWII.
(b) The chief of British Secret Intelligence Service in Washington, D. C.
(c) Stevenson's best friend.
(d) The head of the CIA's covert operations branch in the 1950s.

5. What did Stevenson specialize in at Oxford?
(a) Radio communications.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Veterinary medicine.
(d) Electronics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Stevenson shot down in WWI?

2. What did the network of amateur Swede code breakers intercept?

3. Where was an intelligence leak found?

4. With whom did King George V say he would not collaborate?

5. What was now known to the public about Roosevelt and the British?

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